Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned
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Earn a character first if you can. And if you can't, assume one.
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The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.
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The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
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Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
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After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
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Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can
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They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
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A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose